More about |xue

Manuscripts and Archives Department, University of Cape Town Libraries

Collection

Lloyd and Bleek Collection

Author

!nanni (XI)

Date

1881-5-08 - 1881-05-20

Resource Type

Manuscripts

Topic

Transformation

Historical Sources

Rock Art

Peoples

Intangible Heritage

Cultural Connections

Religion & Belief Systems

Source

The Lloyd and Bleek Collection

Description

|xue pours water into his pot and carries it on a stick over his shoulder (he has attached an ox-head at the other end of the stick). He trips and wounds his knee and the pot breaks. He leaves the ox-head in the tree and departs for his mother's country with a bag of !naxane. The people hide from |xue. |xue searches for his people in vain, and turns back crying. 1) p.9803v: !nanni heard this from his paternal grandfather (Karu); !nanni made a clay model of the ox-head featured in his story (in the Iziko collection), 2) p.9807v: a reference to one of !nanni's drawings of 16 May 1881 (either Iziko_SAMLB_!nBook1_001 or 002) and some of the names of a bird, 3) p.9809v: see Names of seasons, 4) 9816v: (21 May 1881) see Respecting the eland, 5) This story is found in Book XI & XII-10.

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